Tanzania’s President will use Tsh. Billion 130/- to construct the electricity substation Chalinze Line is a 400kV overhead line of 160km from Julius Nyerere Hydropower Station, Morogoro, Tanzania, to Chalinze, Pwani, Tanzania. The construction works on the JNHPP – Chalinze Line project commenced in 2021, and commissioning is expected in 2022. When completed, it will...
The terrible performance of TICTS in handling containers at the Dar es Salaam Port over the past 20 years has spillover effects on the vast economic arrays of Tanzania’s economy. The underperformance of the Dar es Salaam port has cost the government trillions in loss of revenues as there has been reported exodus of local...
Following the surfacing of 39 unconfirmed names, allegedly to be government echelons whom people have claimed to have illegally taken their lands at Isamilo in Mwanza region, the Tanzania Revenues Authority commissioner, Alphayo Kidata, whose name has also been revealed, refutes such allegations against him. Kidata says he’s caught in awe of his name being...
President Samia’s visit to Oman set a benchmark for a better business environment for Tanzanian producers and services providers. Her trip to Oman makes her second trip to the Middle East this year, saying her government is setting a feasible environment for investors to enter the local market and Tanzanians to benefit from investment and trade...
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Commission), through the Chairperson of the African Commission’s Working Group on the Rights of Indigenous Populations/Communities and Minorities in Africa, is following the ongoing eviction of the Maasai community in the Loliondo division of the Ngorongoro district of the United Republic of Tanzania. The Commission...
Drink a glass of water Our bodies are incredibly dehydrated in the morning. It’s been 8 hours since drinking anything! So, do your body a favour and start the day off by downing a glass of water. It’s an easy way to be on the right path to drink enough throughout the day, and you’ll...
In Burundi, drivers are so desperate for fuel that they sleep on forecourts of petrol stations. Senegal has so little jet fuel that Air France’s flight from the capital, Dakar, to Paris has been stopping in the Canary Islands to fill up. Johannesburg has the same problem, which has caused United Airlines to cancel some...
The ministry of health has announced that there has been a sharp increase of COVID-19 cases from 8 patients in the third week of April to 32 patients in the 4 weeks of April, with Dar es Salaam itself having 70 cases. According to the report of the chief medical officer, Dr Aifelo Sichwale, Dar...
